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WinPcap Professional is intended for organizations that produce widely-deployed commercial software products that take advantage of the WinPcap (Windows Packet Capture) functionality. CACE Technologies' proprietary dynamic functionality enables WinPcap Professional to be included in your application as a Dynamic Link Library (DLL). The DLL provides all of the WinPcap functionality without any explicit installation. Contrast this with the Open Source version that requires an explicit installation of WinPcap including the Windows driver and associated DLLs. The benefits of WinPcap Professional include the following.
Bundles WinPcap
functionality with an
application.
As a Windows DLL,
WinPcap Professional seamlessly and
transparently integrates WinPcap functionality
with your application. Consequently, your users
are not aware of the installation of a
third-party package with your application.
Costs less than
doing it yourself.
Creating a DLL
with the functionality of WinPcap Professional
is a challenging engineering task that will
take a talented engineer several months to
recreate. Because WinPcap operates at a low
level within the Windows networking stack,
re-implementing the functionality will require
a highly skilled specialist. By purchasing
WinPcap Professional you avoid doing that work
yourself and free up your engineers to work on
the other tasks.
The WinPcap
Professional unique name space avoids
collisions with existing or future versions of
Open Source WinPcap.
If the
explicit installation of Open Source WinPcap is
not a consideration, then the obvious
alternative is to use Open Source WinPcap with
your application. For many applications this
may be the best choice. For widely-deployed
commercial software, however, there is a risk
that the end user will install a version of the
Open Source WinPcap incompatible with your
application. With millions of Open Source
WinPcap installations annually, this risk is
considerable and growing. WinPcap Professional
gives your application a unique name space for
the library, preventing any future versioning
issues. Increased customer satisfaction and
decreased customer support issues are added
benefits.
Provides access to
experts in a difficult
field.
Although Open Source software produces some of the best code anywhere, it does so at its own pace. With Open Source projects, you will eventually resolve your issue, but in the meanwhile, you risk losing your customers' confidence. The support from CACE Technologies that comes with your purchase of WinPcap Professional means that problems will be examined and solved quickly, so you can offer a resolution to your customer in a timely fashion. Because engineers at CACE Technologies manage the Open Source WinPcap project, they are in a position to make any necessary changes.
Assures immediate
response to technical issues and rapid bug-fix
releases.
Open Source software
produces some of the best code anywhere, but it
does so on its schedule and not yours. With
Open Source projects you may get your issue
resolved, but lose your customer because it
took too long. The support from CACE
Technologies that accompanies WinPcap
Professional means that any problems will be
looked at in timely fashion, so that a
resolution can be delivered quickly for your
customer.
Offers flexible
licensing terms.
CACE Technologies is
willing to negotiate the terms of the WinPcap
Professional software license agreement with
your legal department. Some organizations
prefer to place the licensed code in escrow, or
only license the complete source code. We will
work with you to construct licensing terms for
WinPcap Professional that meet your business
needs.
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